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  • Contributors

Laura Benedetti (PhD, Johns Hopkins University) is the Laura and Gaetano De Sole Professor of Contemporary Italian Culture and Chair of the Italian Department at Georgetown University. Her publications include La sconfitta di Diana. Un percorso per la Gerusalemme liberata, The Tigress in the Snow: Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy (winner of the 2008 International Flaiano Prize for Italian Studies) and the English translation of Lucrezia Marinella’s Esortazioni alle donne e agli altri, se a loro saranno a grado.

Douglas Biow (PhD 1990), who studied with Eduardo Saccone while working for his doctoral degree at Johns Hopkins, is the Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Director of the Center for European Studies, Director of the France-UT Institute, and Co-Director of the EU Center of Excellence at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of a number of articles and books: Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Michigan, 1996); Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 2002), the recipient of a Robert W. Hamilton Book Award; The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (Cornell, 2006), named a Choice Outstanding Title; and, most recently, the forthcoming On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (U of Pennsylvania P, 2015). He has been the recipient of a number of scholarly awards, including NEH and Guggenheim Fellowships.

Mark Chu is Senior Lecturer in Italian, University College Cork, Ireland, where he has taught since 1991 and where he has been Head of the Department of Italian since 2004, following Eduardo Saccone’s retirement. His primary area of research is modern Sicilian literature: he has published on De Roberto, Brancati and Sciascia and was Editor in Chief of the first three issues of the international journal of Sciascia studies, Todomodo (2011–2013), published by Olschki. From his work on Sciascia, he has also developed an interest in Italian and European crime fiction and has published on writers such as Andrea Camilleri, [End Page S157] Gianrico Carofiglio, Marcello Fois and Carlo Lucarelli, as well as on Anglophone writers Michael Dibdin, Magdalen Nabb and Tim Parks.

Giuseppe Falvo is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Italian and Romance Languages at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD in Italian from the Johns Hopkins University in 1986 with a specialization in the Italian Renaissance. He has published articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Della Casa and a book on Baldesar Castiglione entitled The Economy of Human Relations. Castiglione’s “Libro del Cortegiano” (Peter Lang, 1992). He also contributed with entries on humanist writers in the six volume Encyclopedia of the Renaissance (1999) published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in association with the Renaissance Society of America. He is currently working on a second book entitled Tradition and Innovation in Courtesy Literature: Education and Politics in Early Modern Italy, and on another project dealing with the study of ceremony and ritual in Boccaccio’s Decameron.

Anna Laura Lepschy is professor Emerita at University College London, Honorary Fellow at Somerville College Oxford, and Adjunct Professor, and University of Toronto. Her publications include: Santo Brasca, Viaggio in Terrasanta 1480, 1966; with G. Lepschy, The Italian language today, 1977; Narrativa e teatro fra due secoli, 1984; Davanti a Tintoretto, 1988; with G. Lepschy, L’amanuense analfabeta e altri saggi, 1999; and with P. L. Barrotta & E. Bond, eds, Freud and Italian culture, 2009.

Ita Mac Carthy is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Birmingham, UK. She received her BA at University College Cork, Ireland, where she also earned a PhD under the supervision of Eduardo Saccone. Her research lies mainly in the Renaissance period and focuses on the connections between literature, art and society, on keywords and the “new philology,” and on women’s studies. Her publications include articles on these subjects, an edited volume entitled Renaissance Keywords (Legenda, 2013) and the monograph Women and the Making of Poetry (Troubador, 2007). She is currently writing a monograph on The Grace of the Italian Renaissance that examines the notion of grace in Renaissance culture, literature and art...

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